mannulus

mannŭlus, i, m. dim. [1. mannus], a Gallic pony (post-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 4, 2, 3; Mart. 12, 24, 8. ††

1.

mannus, i, m. [Celtic], a kind of small Gallic horse, a coach-horse, cob (used esp. for pleasure-drives):

agens mannos,

Lucr. 3, 1063:

si per obliquum similis sagittae (serpens) Terruit mannos,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 6; id. Ep. 1, 7, 77:

rapientibus esseda mannis,

Ov. Am. 2, 16, 49:

detonsi,

with shorn manes, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 15:

obesi manni,

Sen. Ep. 87, 9. ††

2.

Mannus, i, m. [Germ. Mann, anthrôpos], a god of the ancient Germans, son of Tuisco, Tac. G. 2.